Miserable Miracle (New York Review Books Classics)
Contributors: Octavio Paz (Introduction); Louise Varese (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Published: April 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781590170014
Subjects: Biography: general; Individual artists; Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; General; French Literature; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; French; Biography/Autobiography; Popular Culture - General; Literary; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Substance Abuse & Addictions - Drug Dependence; Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Mescaline
First sentence: IN A STATE of great uneasiness, of anxiety, of inner solemnity.The world retreating in the distance, an ever increasing distance.-Each word becoming more and more dense, too dense to be uttered from now on, word complete in itself, word in a nest, while the noise of the wood fire in the fireplace becomes the only presence, becomes important, strange and absorbing its movements...In a state of expectancy, an expectancy that becomes with each minute more pregnant, more vigilant, more indescribable, more painful to endure ...and to what point can it be endure?